The German champion from the last year – Werder Bremen had a really bad first match in the Champions League. Chuang Chih Yuan and his team mates lost their first match at home with 1:3 against WALTER WELS and made the biggest upset so far. There were no surprises in the other matches from the first round.

The draw had decided the old enemies from SVS NIEDEROSTERREICH and BORUSSIA DUSSELDORF to play against each other in the very first match of table tennis Champions League. The Germans were without their best player Timo Boll and lost with 2:3.